Gregory Currie

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Research 3 Recent Publications 3.1 Books 3.2 Some recent papers 4 External links

[edit] Introduction

Gregory Currie is Professor of Philosophy and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Nottingham. He was educated at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley. His first posts were in Australia, at the University of Sydney, and in New Zealand, at the University of Otago (Otago's Philosophy Department was declared the best academic department in New Zealand based on the NZ gov't Research Funding criterion). Before joining the Nottingham department he was Professor of Philosophy and Head of the School of Arts at Flinders University, Adelaide. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities and a Past President of the Australasian Association of Philosophy.

Currie is editor of Mind and Language, an Associate Editor of the Australasian Journal of Philosophy, a Past Fellow of St John's College, Oxford, and has held visiting positions at Clare Hall, Cambridge, the London School of Economics, the Institute for Advanced Study, Australian National University, the University of Maryland, College Park and the University of St Andrews.

[edit] Research

His research currently focuses on the arts, imagination, the nature of delusions, and the role of narrative in our thinking. He is working on a book on narrative. In addition to providing a theory of the ways narrators function in the representations of stories, he argues for a special role for narrative in the generation of certain kinds of ideas which, as with ideas of magic and religion, have a status indeterminate between imagination and belief. He hopes to complete this in 2006.

[edit] Recent Publications

[edit] Books

• Greg Currie’s most recent book is Arts and Minds, Oxford University Press, 2004,is a book of essays on cognition and the arts, some new and some reprinted.

• Recreative Minds: Imagination in Philosophy and Psychology, Oxford University Press, 2002, develops a theory of the imagination based on the idea of mental simulation. .

• Narrative Thinking, is due to appear with Oxford University Press.

[edit] Some recent papers

• "Imagination and make-believe", In B. Gaut and D. McIver Lopes (eds) The Routledge Companion to Aesthetics. Second edition. London, Routledge.

• "How Does Narrative Cue Children’s Perspective Taking? ", Developmental Psychology 41, No. 1, (2005) 115–123 (with Fenja Ziegler and Peter Mitchell)

• Thinking together, Critical notice of Jane Heal: Mind, Reason and Imagination, Philosophical Books 46 (2005) 132-137.

• "Narrative and Coherence", Mind & Language 19 (2004) 409-427 (with Jon Jureidini)

• "Characters and Contingency ", Dialectica 52 (2003) 137-148

• "Art and delusion ", Monist, 64 (2003) 556-578 (with Jon Jureidini)

[edit] External links

• Departmental Staff Page
• University of Nottingham